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Tea in and After Empire invites a conversation between the past and present by asking how since the eighteenth century, imperial structures, practices, ideologies, and interactions among diverse empires and their many components continue to shape tea’s
meanings, values, and practices. The authors address such questions as anthropologists, historians, artists, and sociologists. Collectively, they argue that tea’s global popularity and problems demand a multidisciplinary approach that considers tea’s life as a plant, medicine, commodity, beverage, cultural practice, social and political symbol, and source of artistic inspiration.
Price: $118.00
Pages: 292
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
07 January 2027
ISBN: 9789004776548
Format: Hardcover
Erika Rappaport is a Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara. A British cultural historian, she has published on the histories of gender and consumer cultures, urban history, propaganda and capitalism, including Shopping for Pleasure: Women and the Making of London’s West End (Princeton 2000). Her book, A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2017), won the 2018 American Historical Association’s Jerry Bentley Prize, the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies 2018 Book Award and the Association for the Study of Food and Society’s 2018 Book Award.
Muey C. Saeteurn is an Associate Professor of African History at the University of California, Merced. A social historian, she studies how rural African women and men shaped large-scale historical processes in the modern world. She is the author of Cultivating Their Own: Agriculture in Western Kenya During the “Development” Era (University of Rochester Press, 2020) and Making Tea: Tea Farmers and the Production of Modern Kenya (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2027).
Muey C. Saeteurn is an Associate Professor of African History at the University of California, Merced. A social historian, she studies how rural African women and men shaped large-scale historical processes in the modern world. She is the author of Cultivating Their Own: Agriculture in Western Kenya During the “Development” Era (University of Rochester Press, 2020) and Making Tea: Tea Farmers and the Production of Modern Kenya (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2027).